Jon Matonis: Watch Bitcoin Robbery in Slow Motion: Forbes columnist Jon Matonis (@JonMatonis) describes how Bitcoin transactions are traceable by showing the trail of the coins stolen during the Linode hack last month. Excerpts:
“The public and transparent nature of the bitcoin transaction ledger ensures that all transactions are known by date, time, amount, and block number although not necessarily by the who or the where”.“The slow motion heist of bitcoin stored at Linode can be viewed by methodically clicking through web-based block chain information in a weird voyeuristic game of ‘follow-the-money’”.“Has the thief been apprehended yet? Not exactly, but that is because public traceability does not always equate to real-world identity and therefore the transactions themselves are still reasonably anonymous”.“Clearly, it’s a whole new world for electronic money especially when that money comes with the powerful irreversibility of cash”.
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Reuters - Bitcoin, the City traders' anarchic new toy: Reuters journalist Naomi O’Leary (@NaomiOhReally) had been researching Bitcoin since at least February weighs in with her overview of Bitcoin. Excerpts:
“Workers at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in London and New York have been visiting online Bitcoin exchanges as often as 30 times a day, according to documents seen by Reuters. Neither bank wanted to comment”.“Employees at almost all the major international banks and numerous trading and investment firms have shown interest”.“One British businessman in China said he regularly used it to deal with businesses in Asia, Europe and the Americas because of local restrictions on sending currency to foreign companies. ‘I’ve been able to have cash in my bank account in a matter of hours using Bitcoin, rather than three days with traditional banking,’ he said”.“Quietly, a growing list of businesses are starting to accept it for a wide range of goods, from legal services to food”.“A spokeswoman for the German Bundesbank told Reuters it was not classifying Bitcoins as e-currency. She said EU law required only euros to be accepted as legal tender, but this was superseded by German law that allows those involved in a contract to determine its content. So Bitcoin is at least not illegal there”.
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I wonder why there are no cam sites which are accepting Bitcoin. However, this post should a place to share Bitcoin & XXX related links. To stimulate the Bitcoin xxx economy I created an own category on Bitmit.
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http://i.imgur.com/pdNs6.pngWhat we have here are the two halves of the MtGox era of Bitcoin history. The first half roughly corresponds to the meteoric rise of the Bitcoin price and the second to the correction that has taken place since then. The two boxes highlight periods of relative stability in the price, periods where the price has stayed within a particular 100% range. Looking only at opening prices, the first such extended period lasted 90 days - one can count the period either as being from July 17 ($0.04951) to October 14 (increase from $0.949 to $0.102) or from July 27 ($0.056) to October 25 (increase from $0.1055 to $0.115). Since then, the price has experienced a series of ups and downs with no relative price stability for longer than 60 days. Now, however, look at the most recent data. We’ve been within the range of $3.6 to $7.2 since December 20, an unprecedented 104 days - the price has remained stable longer than ever before in all of Bitcoin history.